Hunter Thompson is Dead

Patriotboy here.

One of my favorite cultural icons is dead. If you haven't read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail--the latter along with Tim Crouse's The Boys on the Bus--you should. I miss him already.

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it - that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
-- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

"He [George HW Bush] has the instincts of a dung beetle. No living politician can match his talent for soiling himself in public. Bush will seek out filth wherever it lives... and when he finds a new heap he will fall down and wallow crazily in it, making snorting sounds out of his nose and rolling over on his back and kicking his legs up in the air like a wild hog coming to water."
-- Generation of Swine

"Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television."
-- Generation of Swine

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.... Mainly we are dealing with a profoundly degenerate world, a living web of foulness, greed and treachery . . . which is also the biggest real business around and impossible to ignore. You can't get away from TV. It is everywhere. The hog is in the tunnel.
-- Generation of Swine

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile."
-- Generation of Swine

Roxanne remembers Gonzo with a load of links.

More Thompson quotes.